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26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: SUM KHAT, 64, sits in her dorm room at Handicapped International in Siem Reap. She was walking through the jungle collecting firewood in 1983, during one of the civil wars that consumed Cambodia after the Vietnam war, when she stepped on a small plastic landmine and blew off her foot. Handicapped International helps Cambodians maimed by mines and unexploded ordinance as well as traffic accidents and disease adjust to a life without limbs. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. Photo by Jack Kurtz

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26 JUNE 2006 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: SUM KHAT, 64, sits in her dorm room at Handicapped International in Siem Reap. She was walking through the jungle collecting firewood in 1983, during one of the civil wars that consumed Cambodia after the Vietnam war, when she stepped on a small plastic landmine and blew off her foot. Handicapped International helps Cambodians maimed by mines and unexploded ordinance as well as traffic accidents and disease adjust to a life without limbs. Cambodians are still wrestling with the legacy of the war in Vietnam and subsequent civil wars. At one time it was the most heavily mined country in the world and a vast swath of Cambodia, along the Thai-Cambodian border, is still mined. In 2004, more than 800 people were killed by mines and unexploded ordinance still found in the countryside. Photo by Jack Kurtz
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